Butcher by Joyce Carol Oates I started this novel…
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Butcher by Joyce Carol Oates
I started this novel yesterday morning and I'm already halfway through it. I'm amazed at how captivating it is from the very start, I have a hard time putting it down.
In a way it's a kind of morbid curiosity that keeps pulling me in, because it's some of the most disturbing shit I've ever read. I'm usually not too sensitive when it comes to books, and I'm used to reading pretty intense stories, but this is hitting hard.
Knowing that it's based off a real historical character and that so many women had to go through such atrocities in that era (that wasn't even so long ago!), being experimented on and dehumanized, is so sad and makes me so angry. The chapter titled "The Chair of Tranquility" was especially heartbreaking, I was not ready and I just had to stop reading for a while to take it in, and just try to imagine how terrible it was for the victim of such a "treatment".
Another thing that I find fascinating is the characterization of Dr. Weir. When he's introduced to us being this awkward and very entitled young man getting his first rejection by a woman, it was very meaningful as it reminded me a lot of how incels think, and shape their view of women from a young age. I also found very interesting how Dr. Weir justifies his misogyny by using religious rhetoric, and how he wants to force his female victims to become passive and to stop thinking and reading. Again, this is something we observe often nowadays with the Christian nationalism epidemic and the tradwife propaganda trend. It's definitely not random that Butcher was published in 2024.
I haven't seen many posts about it on here, which was a bit surprising to me given the subject matter, in our current times when women's rights are in danger, and when medical misogyny is still a huge issue especially when it comes to ob/gyn matters. So, for those who read this book, I'd like to read your impressions and see if it impacted you as much as it's impacted me.
#entertainment
I started this novel yesterday morning and I'm already halfway through it. I'm amazed at how captivating it is from the very start, I have a hard time putting it down.
In a way it's a kind of morbid curiosity that keeps pulling me in, because it's some of the most disturbing shit I've ever read. I'm usually not too sensitive when it comes to books, and I'm used to reading pretty intense stories, but this is hitting hard.
Knowing that it's based off a real historical character and that so many women had to go through such atrocities in that era (that wasn't even so long ago!), being experimented on and dehumanized, is so sad and makes me so angry. The chapter titled "The Chair of Tranquility" was especially heartbreaking, I was not ready and I just had to stop reading for a while to take it in, and just try to imagine how terrible it was for the victim of such a "treatment".
Another thing that I find fascinating is the characterization of Dr. Weir. When he's introduced to us being this awkward and very entitled young man getting his first rejection by a woman, it was very meaningful as it reminded me a lot of how incels think, and shape their view of women from a young age. I also found very interesting how Dr. Weir justifies his misogyny by using religious rhetoric, and how he wants to force his female victims to become passive and to stop thinking and reading. Again, this is something we observe often nowadays with the Christian nationalism epidemic and the tradwife propaganda trend. It's definitely not random that Butcher was published in 2024.
I haven't seen many posts about it on here, which was a bit surprising to me given the subject matter, in our current times when women's rights are in danger, and when medical misogyny is still a huge issue especially when it comes to ob/gyn matters. So, for those who read this book, I'd like to read your impressions and see if it impacted you as much as it's impacted me.
#entertainment
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